While shooting my scene switch got switched- 24pa

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Peem Washikiat

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Aloha techies, shooters, poets, gurus,

I'm building a video in FCP which I inadvertently chose to shoot in 24pa after noticing my scene selector switch moved to 24pa early on during the shoot. Thats fine- learning experiment. My question is this. My client wanted to have a quick edit session and rather than doing anything new with settings I imported and started the edit in the standard 60i time line.
I knew there was something I would need to do with a pulldown conversion later though now I realize (90% through my edit) that I may have goofed again. Should I have done the conversion first before the edit or can I do the conversion without having to re-edit? Say finish the edit and then convert it.??

Question 2- Will it be a problem if I mix the 24p with 24pa in 24pa project/dvd?

I dont think my client sees the difference but I can see it and would like to finish it right.

Mahalos & thanks
Peem
 
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What are you using to edit. If it is premiere the pulldown will be removed automatically when you import.
 
Premiere doesn't remove pulldown in the Standard presets, only the 24p preset. But you really don't need to either. The camera added pulldown in such a way that it can be properly removed for 24p editing, but doesn't need to be removed for normal 30i editing. The motion just looks a little different is all.
 
24 pa in FCP

24 pa in FCP

Im using FCP on a macbook pro. I have the edit almost done- can I finish and then do the pulldown for the dvd build?

thanks
Peem
 
No. At that point, it becomes a reverse telecine, and that's not the same thing. You'll lose vertical resolution, and it'll probably be an especially big mess because you either have two pulldown patterns in your footage, or you have footage with none at all.

For what it's worth, in an NLE which automatically removes either type of pulldown on a 24p timeline (like Premiere Pro (2.0 and later), as mentioned, or Vegas or Edius), this wouldn't have been issue; you could have just edited it all as 24p.
 
Ok. thanks for the info- Next time Ill be taping up that scene selector switch for my dvx100a. Its a shame the display for playback doesnt note the scene that footage was shot in.

cheers,
Peem
 
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